Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2663, New York

Ledger documenting the "Hire of Negroes" from the estate of a Georgia planter.

Letter delivered by an enslaved man, concerning his owner's offer to sell him.

Letter describing an enslaved woman getting 100 lashes for resisting rape.

Letter seeking the return of a runaway slave: "You own a woman that he used to call his wife."

Pair of letters concerning the loan of enslaved racehorse jockeys.

Group of letters and documents relating to enslaved people in the South.

Ledger of debt judgements collected by a Virginia deputy sheriff, including the transfer of dozens of enslaved people.

Front-page newspaper printing of the recently passed Fugitive Slave Act,

Motion in the landmark case of David Barley vs. Rebecca Ringgold, who sought her freedom.

A Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court . . . in the Case of Dred Scott

Deed for the sale of an enslaved man named Bob in Rockland County, New York.

Inventory of a Kentucky estate, naming seven enslaved people including small children.

Deathbed letter discussing the manumission of her enslaved people.

Group of bills of sale for enslaved people in the Carolinas and Virginia.

Group of bills of sale for enslaved people in the deep south.

Group of bills of sale for enslaved people in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Detailed list of 310 enslaved people on a large Louisiana sugar plantation.

Extensive Credit Sale of Slaves! At Auction, at the City Hotel. 112 Likely Young Negroes.

Deed of 19 enslaved people to the wife of future Confederate general Richard Griffith.

Diary of a Mississippi cotton planter, including agreements with overseers.

Records of Hyde Park plantation in Virginia, with lists of their enslaved, and letters by enslaved Confederate workers.

Petition to a Union officer to have a runaway slave returned to his owner in the border region of Kentucky.

Governor's Communication Transmitting Sundry Documents Relative to Freedom to Slaves.

Group of 6 letters commenting on the lives of freedmen and enslaved people during the Civil War.

Stereoview of the infamous Alexandria slave pen of "Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves."